Lisa Latussek has been honored with the NAFEMS DACH Student Award for her exceptional Master’s thesis completed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) under the supervision of Dr. Philipp Kinon and Prof. Peter Betsch. The award recognizes outstanding student contributions in the fields of numerical engineering and simulation, and Lisa’s work stood out among submissions from across the DACH region.
Shashank Saxena has been awarded first place at the 16th ECCOMAS PhD Olympiad during the World Congress of Computational Mechanics (WCCM), held this year in Munich. His selection for the Olympiad followed SWICCOMAS naming his dissertation the best PhD thesis in Computational and Applied Mechanics in Switzerland for 2025.
Mathieu Brodmann has been awarded with the 3rd place at the Michael Sutton International Student Paper Competition at the 2026 annual conference of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM).